(Finance) – Rome prepare the exit from Silk Road What will be “soft” given that the aim is not to damage relationships with Beijing, indeed the objective is to relaunch them on others fronts and at multiple levels.
Rome for some time now decided the exit strategy but by December a parliamentary passage will be needed to defuse the Automatic RenewalFor this reason, we are working closely so that there are not too many repercussions at a diplomatic level in the relations between the two countries. This is precisely what the meeting between Prime Minister Gorgia Meloni and Chinese Prime Minister Li Qiang on the sidelines of the G20 work served.
“The first opportunity for direct contact between the two Heads of Government, the meeting confirmed the common intention to consolidate and deepen the dialogue between Rome and Beijing on the main bilateral and international issues”, underlines a note from Palazzo Chigi.
Another passage is also not accidental: “Both with a thousand-year history, Italy and China share a Global Strategic Partnership whose twentieth anniversary will be celebrated next year and which will constitute the beacon for the advancement of friendship and collaboration between the two Nations in every sector of common interest “. Beijing, on the other hand, has never hidden its irritation over the fact that the Italian choice may have been conditioned by US pressure despite Meloni’s denial which ensures that the decision to Rome depends exclusively on interchange numbers.
Of relations with China, the Minister of Business and Made in Italy A. also spokeDolfo Urso, speaking at the presentation of the MADE campaign “Prime Minister Meloni met the Chinese Prime Minister during the G20, as well as Minister Tajani’s mission to Beijing. The path is that of sharing the choices that we will make to return to the path of merchants. The Silk Road is the merchants’ road, in our opinion it was a mistake to make it an ideological and political choice. We know, because history tells us, how East and West can cooperate using that merchants’ road in mutual interest , therefore we will strengthen commercial and productive relationships while avoiding political risks.”